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Winter Storm Warnings in Washington, 2023

38 winter storm warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
38
Busiest month
February14 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
February 25, 20234 winter storm warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 4, 1:13 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla39 hr
Feb 6, 2:20 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW44 hr
Feb 12, 11:51 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan34 hr
Feb 12, 11:51 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW38 hr
Feb 12, 2:11 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla44 hr
Feb 19, 2:33 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan3 days
Feb 19, 2:57 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW61 hr
Feb 19, 3:02 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla4 days
Feb 19, 9:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR4 days
Feb 25, 3:28 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR40 hr
Feb 25, 3:35 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan42 hr
Feb 25, 4:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW42 hr
Feb 25, 2:33 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT31 hr
Feb 27, 1:32 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR39 hr
Mar 1, 2:20 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan56 hr
Mar 1, 4:02 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW54 hr
Mar 1, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR39 hr
Mar 3, 4:20 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR35 hr
Mar 3, 2:28 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW26 hr
Mar 8, 2:48 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla55 hr
Mar 9, 3:34 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXDouglas, Grant20 hr
Mar 12, 3:30 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW47 hr
Mar 22, 12:54 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Walla Walla70 hr
Mar 22, 2:25 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningPQR68 hr
Mar 30, 2:41 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Kittitas, Walla Walla, Yakima3 days
Mar 30, 2:46 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXAsotin, Chelan, Garfield56 hr
Mar 30, 2:54 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningPQR4 days
Mar 30, 2:56 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW3 days
Oct 23, 1:21 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Okanogan52 hr
Oct 23, 3:24 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningSEW50 hr
Nov 10, 2:47 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan, Okanogan43 hr
Nov 10, 4:11 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW42 hr
Nov 29, 2:15 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTColumbia, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima4 days
Nov 30, 2:02 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPQR60 hr
Nov 30, 2:46 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW67 hr
Nov 30, 4:10 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXAsotin, Chelan, Garfield, Okanogan3 days
Dec 8, 2:46 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTXChelan46 hr
Dec 8, 2:54 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW43 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 25, 20234winter storm warnings
  2. March 30, 20234winter storm warnings
  3. February 12, 20233winter storm warnings
  4. February 19, 20233winter storm warnings
  5. March 1, 20233winter storm warnings
  6. November 30, 20233winter storm warnings
  7. March 3, 20232winter storm warnings
  8. March 22, 20232winter storm warnings
  9. October 23, 20232winter storm warnings
  10. November 10, 20232winter storm warnings
  11. December 8, 20232winter storm warnings
  12. February 4, 20231winter storm warnings

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.